JOSEPH BIGGS II SON OF JOSEPH BIGGS I AND MARGARET EASTWOOD.
MARRIED 1ST WIFE ELIZABETH GREGORY 27 AUG 1784 MARTIN COUNTY, NC. MARRIED 2ND WIFE ANN PHILLIPS 20 FEB 1787 MARTIN COUNTY, NC. MARRIED 3RD WIFE CHLOE DANIEL 8 FEB 1808 MARTIN COUNTY, NC.
Elder Joseph Biggs experienced the pardon of his sins in his twenty-fifth year; joined the Methodist first and preached for them; went against conscience three years; received a member of the Baptist church at Skewarkey 1795 and baptized by Elder Martin Ross; ordained 1796; took the pastoral care of Flat Swamp Church, and during the years 1802 and 1803 baptized for that church over one hundred persons, was chosen clerk of the Kehukee Association in 1806 and wrote the Kehukee History from 1803 to 1833. He was a man of great influence, a gifted preacher, and for forty-eight years a zealous and faithful laborer in the Master's vineyard. He departed this life in the full triumph of faith in 1844 in the seventy-eighth year of his age.
Biographical History of Primitive or Old School Baptist Ministers of the United States
edited by R.H. Pittman
Herald Publishing Company
Anderson, Indiana
Published in 1909
page 35
Contributor: Searchers of our Past (47220553)
MARRIED 1ST WIFE ELIZABETH GREGORY 27 AUG 1784 MARTIN COUNTY, NC. MARRIED 2ND WIFE ANN PHILLIPS 20 FEB 1787 MARTIN COUNTY, NC. MARRIED 3RD WIFE CHLOE DANIEL 8 FEB 1808 MARTIN COUNTY, NC.
Elder Joseph Biggs experienced the pardon of his sins in his twenty-fifth year; joined the Methodist first and preached for them; went against conscience three years; received a member of the Baptist church at Skewarkey 1795 and baptized by Elder Martin Ross; ordained 1796; took the pastoral care of Flat Swamp Church, and during the years 1802 and 1803 baptized for that church over one hundred persons, was chosen clerk of the Kehukee Association in 1806 and wrote the Kehukee History from 1803 to 1833. He was a man of great influence, a gifted preacher, and for forty-eight years a zealous and faithful laborer in the Master's vineyard. He departed this life in the full triumph of faith in 1844 in the seventy-eighth year of his age.
Biographical History of Primitive or Old School Baptist Ministers of the United States
edited by R.H. Pittman
Herald Publishing Company
Anderson, Indiana
Published in 1909
page 35
Contributor: Searchers of our Past (47220553)
JOSEPH BIGGS II SON OF JOSEPH BIGGS I AND MARGARET EASTWOOD.
MARRIED 1ST WIFE ELIZABETH GREGORY 27 AUG 1784 MARTIN COUNTY, NC. MARRIED 2ND WIFE ANN PHILLIPS 20 FEB 1787 MARTIN COUNTY, NC. MARRIED 3RD WIFE CHLOE DANIEL 8 FEB 1808 MARTIN COUNTY, NC.
Elder Joseph Biggs experienced the pardon of his sins in his twenty-fifth year; joined the Methodist first and preached for them; went against conscience three years; received a member of the Baptist church at Skewarkey 1795 and baptized by Elder Martin Ross; ordained 1796; took the pastoral care of Flat Swamp Church, and during the years 1802 and 1803 baptized for that church over one hundred persons, was chosen clerk of the Kehukee Association in 1806 and wrote the Kehukee History from 1803 to 1833. He was a man of great influence, a gifted preacher, and for forty-eight years a zealous and faithful laborer in the Master's vineyard. He departed this life in the full triumph of faith in 1844 in the seventy-eighth year of his age.
Biographical History of Primitive or Old School Baptist Ministers of the United States
edited by R.H. Pittman
Herald Publishing Company
Anderson, Indiana
Published in 1909
page 35
Contributor: Searchers of our Past (47220553)
MARRIED 1ST WIFE ELIZABETH GREGORY 27 AUG 1784 MARTIN COUNTY, NC. MARRIED 2ND WIFE ANN PHILLIPS 20 FEB 1787 MARTIN COUNTY, NC. MARRIED 3RD WIFE CHLOE DANIEL 8 FEB 1808 MARTIN COUNTY, NC.
Elder Joseph Biggs experienced the pardon of his sins in his twenty-fifth year; joined the Methodist first and preached for them; went against conscience three years; received a member of the Baptist church at Skewarkey 1795 and baptized by Elder Martin Ross; ordained 1796; took the pastoral care of Flat Swamp Church, and during the years 1802 and 1803 baptized for that church over one hundred persons, was chosen clerk of the Kehukee Association in 1806 and wrote the Kehukee History from 1803 to 1833. He was a man of great influence, a gifted preacher, and for forty-eight years a zealous and faithful laborer in the Master's vineyard. He departed this life in the full triumph of faith in 1844 in the seventy-eighth year of his age.
Biographical History of Primitive or Old School Baptist Ministers of the United States
edited by R.H. Pittman
Herald Publishing Company
Anderson, Indiana
Published in 1909
page 35
Contributor: Searchers of our Past (47220553)
Inscription
Sacred to the Memory of Rev. Joseph Biggs, born March 12, 1766 departed this life May 30, 1844 Aged 77 years 6 months and 18 days.
Elder for 47 years in the Baptist Church. He adorned the profession of a Watchman in Zion by a life will ordered and in strict adherance to the Commandments of His Savior, kind and indulgent as a father, loved as a friend, cherished by his campanion in life and respected by all. He has left his little flock on earth and his spirit has returned to God who gave it. In reverence to his memory, this monument is erected by his children.
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